Money managers are going to be hard pressed to deliver such results from their stocks and bonds.
And when they do, they are going to be hard pressed to make the case that the stock deserves to trade even higher still.
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If the economy steadily improves, expect the Federal Reserve to be more hard pressed in justifying near-zero interest rates and easing efforts.
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"Councils are going to be hard-pressed to negotiate for BT to really stretch the limits of where it goes it, " he said.
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Absent a pickup in U.S. natural gas prices, Shell is going to be hard-pressed to see a return on that investment anytime soon.
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It also happened to be a great viral high-definition promo for their line of LCD televisions, and they're going to be hard-pressed (no pun intended) to do an encore.
"You're going to be hard-pressed to evade law enforcement (by) reading stuff on Twitter, " said Blanton, who added he has never heard of a criminal successfully using the service to escape police.
The controversy will continue because on one side there will be analysts who will continue to contend that Z10 and Q10 will be hard pressed to gain over 5% market share.
What is certain, however, is that -- having telegraphed its willingness in principle to do so -- the United States will be hard pressed to resist demands that will make the treaty even more unacceptable to the Senate than it is at present.
' If a scientist wanted to design a giant petri dish with all the right nutrients to make hypomanic genius flourish, he would be hard-pressed to imagine a better natural experiment than America.
With many Russians also wary of hanging on to roubles until after the planned redenomination on January 1st, which will relaunch the currency at 6.1 to the dollar, the central bank will be hard-pressed to hold the line until then.
Their bashes and industry functions give business types extraordinary access to a forum of federal, state and local political leaders they'd be hard pressed to find anywhere else.
Yet despite the long shadow Lombardi still casts over the game 36 years after his death--he coached the Green Bay Packers to five titles in the 1960s--current National Football League coaches would be hard pressed to agree.
More important, between now and the April meeting the alliance will have to sort out some transatlantic problems which British diplomacy will be hard-pressed to finesse.
It is impossible to forecast the performance of those deals, but they will not be hard-pressed to beat out their precursors from challenging 2011.
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Investors will be hard pressed to find a cheaper stock in the high-flying technology sector.
The press will be hard pressed to showcase success stories of heroic federal assistance.
For sure, you will be hard pressed to restore your nest egg by owning bonds.
Firms will, equally, be hard pressed to raise prices enough to recover their higher input bills.
Americans will be hard pressed to support freedom elsewhere if they do not protect it at home.
You would be hard pressed to find an industry with more customer interaction--and therefore potential stress--than airlines.
Any government may be hard pressed to resist the appeal of some of Mr Hagen's populist ideas.
If you put me behind a telescope I would be hard pressed to find the night sky, let alone Venus.
Even new leadership will be hard pressed to buck the lack of innovation and consumer interest weighing down the industry.
But rising unemployment and spare capacity suggest that workers who want higher wages will be hard pressed to win them.
In New York you would be hard pressed to find anyone out in sweats on a Sunday (except at the gym).
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You would be hard pressed to find a motor sports enthusiast that would turn down a few days at the race track.
As for reliability, technology analysts say you'd be hard pressed to find an in-house corporate IT operation that tops AWS's cloud service.
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